PA. 8 B ° By FANNIE HURST i FEAL CAS TAS BA (@®. 1921, McClure Nowspaper Syndicate ) WNU Service. UELLA MORSE was one of those girls who turn efficient, so to speak, owing to the demands of circumstance, She had pot been educated toward that end. A girls’ finishing school in thie East and a pretty sound musical training had endowed her with the comfortable veneer of one whose life seems des- tined for easy places. Luella's life, however, did not turn out that way at all. When she was twenty-one, satisfactorily returned to her snug home from her smug finish- ing school and living the busy life of the society girl In her Middle West city, fortune suddenly turned a cold shoulder. Within four months was not only orphaned, but found her- self seated among the ruins of family splendor that had apparently been only papler mache, Luella’s father, who, ever since she could remember, had maintained a pleasant, large household, sufficient servants to relieve his wife and daugh- ter of creature concern, two automo biles at least and plenty of hospital ity for visitors, left an estate which, after the debts were paid and a thou- sand undreamed obligations met, net- ted his startled daughter just seven hundred dollars, It was a rather appalling situation, because If any girl seemed unfitted for the strenuous procedures of a busl- ness woman's life, that girl was the pretty and frail Luella, She had always blended so cogenial- ly into the pattern mapped out for her by socially ambitious parents. She had done just the right and normal things for a girl in her position. She had never been a problem; never been one of those girls filled with myst fying desires and unrests. But like so many human belngs who, under pressure, show undreamed of possibilities, Luella responded to the change of circumstances in a fashion that fairly took away the breath of the community. After a month or two of Inevitable collapse and bewilderment, the trou- bl young woman, refusing wvarlous offers of friends to tide her over the immediate future confronting her, took matters upon her own shoulders, so to speak. And of all enterprises for a girl of Luella’s gentle breeding to enter! Within six months after her parents’ death, Luella was in the real estate business. Not, It is true, that she had selected it; more specifically, it had selected her. That Is, after weeks of aimless searching she had finally stum- bled across an opening In a real es tate office where, on no salary, but a commission basis, she was given the opportunity to prove her fettle and her nettle in salesmanship. Her whirlwind career as a real es tate promoter in a district covering her own city and the countryside with- in a twenty-mile radius, was one which was to make local history. How it all came about. how her en- terprise, her aggressiveness and her incredible tenacity focused themselves on real estate values, Immediate and future, has already become legend. Unexplainable, least of all to her self, except that her dogged determl- nation to make good grinped her from the first day of her entrance Into this business, was the fact that within five years the Morse “family house” had become one of the dominant archi- tectural features of the city. Before she was thirty Luella Morse was undoubtedly the foremost real es tate promoter in her part of the coun- try. Hundreds of modern apartment houses, built along lines originally de- signed by her, dominated the streets of the city. Her fame as a soclologist had transcended far beyond her own state and, In making possible these tabloid homes for families In moderate circumstances, she was declared by many to have emancipated the family from many of Its creature oppressions and woes, The Morse homes, which were de signed in units graduated to the needs of families of various sizes, were the last word In efficiency. Everything in them was modeled along lines ealen- lated to destroy the deadly and dead. ening effects of household drudgery upon women. The living rooms were models of comfortable efficiency and rounded corners. A minimum number of dust-catching surfaces. Bedrooms with disappearing beds. Kitchenettes that were electrical marvels. There was not a detall in modern housekeeping that Luella Morse had not figured out with power and sim- plicity. She was honored not only in her own community but the country over. She had made possible econ. omy, comfort and luxuries for the middle class. When Luella Morse was thirty she was worth two million dollars. She was one of the outstanding success “stories for women of her time, and characteristically enough, she herself occupied a Morse home, her life nar rowing down to the =implicilty whe loved. She kept no servants, In a Morse home they were superfluous, She was the modern efficient wom- an, all right. She had reduced house she keeping to its lowest terms. Woman sald prayerful things of her; the real estate industry bowed to her undoubt- ed financial genius and did honor to the service she had done to humanity, When Luella was slightly past thir- ty a situation, which had chiefly been deferred by the unusual trend of her life, arose. For the first time she might be sald to have found time to let the® business of living wedge Its way into her manifold activities. Through her work she met a soclo- logist in a local university named El. mer Brown and fell in love with him. He was a man about thirty-eight, a dreamer, an idealist and imbued with much enthusiasm for the achievements of Luella Morse, An enthusiasm which had not to do with her financial success. He frankly regarded her as a sort of Messiah to women. His re- spect for what she had done was with- out limit; and he loved Luella. They were married. The Morse home by now has become @ national Institution. Indeed, it is spreading to all parts of the world. The work of Elmer Brown has long since transcended the confines of his university and he now joins his wife in propounding their fine and human- izing schemes. Meanwhile, the Elmer Browns have time to gtve thought and consideration to their own lives, They live in a beautiful old farm- house which they have bought on the outskirts of the middle western city. It has fourteen rooms and its upkeep is Intricate and exacting. Luella runs the elaborate household herself. Its cares press upon her. Its complexities disturb her. Its servant problems are endless. Privately, between Elmer and her- self, they have decided it 1s worth It. Ancient English Castle of Historic Interest Excavations at the anclent royal castle at Berkhamsted have revealed many Interesting details of Its early construction. For many years thick undergrowth and a forest of trees have smothered the crumbling walls and crowned the foundations of the keep. From the embankment of the rail- way station, which overlooks the ruins, writes J. Dixon-Scott In the London Dally Telegraph, you can now recon- struct the character of the old fortifi- cation, with its unusual double moat and large shell keep, which stands against a background of bared trees. You also may regard with some doubt the defensive value of a site over- looked on the north by higher eleva- tions. With the Introduction of ecan- oon In the Middle ages its position as a fortress must have become unten- able. Before that time the castle had been the scene of events of historical im- portance, It was here that London made Its submission to William the Norman. The conqueror’s half broth- er, the ear! of Mortaigne, to whom the castle and manor were presented, greatly enlarged the old Saxon strong- hold. In the Domesday book the cas- tie was valued at £16. The Inventory included two arpends of vineyards, an unusual feature, all trace of which has long since disappeared. In the reign of Henry II the castle and manor reverted to the crown, be coming an occasional royal residence. Edward II1 and the Black Prince held thelr courts within its walls. Here, too, King John of France, the lustri- ous captive of the Black Prince, spent some time of enforced leisure. Rlch- ard II1 died at Berkhamsted, as did his mother. the duchess of York, In 1408, A variety of military accouterments, coins, broken pottery and glazed tiles have been dug up. Of these tiles, which are reminiscent of Fourteenth century workmanship, the most Inter esting are those depicting designs of the fleur-de-lys and one showing the Lion of England. Historic St. Male Brittany, the “Land of the Sea” 1s one of the oldest lands In the world, and its Gruild stones of colossal size date back thousands of years before the Christian era, and like those at Stonehenge in England are visited an- nually by thousands. St. Malo on the const has the appearance of a large ship at anchor. It stands on s* rock peninsula and is surrounded by mas- give walls, which were built in the Sixteenth century as a defense against the French and the British. The town is named after a Welsh monk named St. Malo, or Maclou, who held a bishopric here In the Sixth century. “Thought” in Lower Animals Some psychological laboratories nowadays look like Noah's ark, for many mind readers are trying to dis- cover whether, or how well, different } species of animals think, One trouble with such methods is that animals behave unnaturally In cages. The way R. L. Garner studied animal psychology was better. Instead of putting animals in cages, he caged up himself with a tame chimpanzee In a Congo jungle for 120 days and ob- served the behavior of the creatures that stared In at him, Vast Wealth of Tibet “The Tibetans have so much wealth in their country that If they choose they could wipe off an empire's na- tional debt, by handling them the lump sum 4n gold,” sald a traveler, recently returned from Tibet. His opinion Is that there are vast aluvial deposits of gold in “the land of the Llamas,” and that they represent un- told wealth. The Tibetans did not do any mining, but just picked the gold up from the soll, There were also large deposits of silver and coppegy in Tibet, all awaiting exploitation, (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) ARLY spring weans carnival in Nice, capital of the French Riviera. To this region crowd thousands of visitors to take part In the annual playtime. But to enjoy it one need not become a participant In this somewhat stren- uous though good-natured huriy-burly. Even as a spectacle, the carnival is amusing. What the French ean't think of—Iin the way of great cars topping the roofs ; mounted groups impersonat- ing anything from a knightly tourney to a set of chess men; ludicrous fig. ures of carrots, cocottes, Catherin- ettes, and monocled men about town— the Itallans, to whom Nice belonged when the first carnivals were held, add In the way of human Interest The carnival occupies scores of artists and hundreds of workmen for months. Miles of silks and satins are dyed In the official colors of the year. The business as well as the appear ance of the center of the city is trans formed for weeks. Tourists accus- tomed to the best are forced to humble themselves before haughty conclerges and reception clerks who but a month before were obsequlious, Carnival spreads his fame up Fifth avenue, and along Cockspur street, so that winter sallings show a marked In- crease and a place in the Train Bleu is worth a fight. For it a big comite peace of mind against and unsettling weather which mocks at prearranged schedules. Far into the night the com- mitttee plans how to prevent two per sons from occupying the same chalr at the same time and still keep from re- funding money once lured into its coffers, . All that Is stagecraft and manage ment, as lifeless and dull to the out. sider as thg back-stage gridiron or a rack of numbered and lettered tickets What makes a carnival is not the elaborate plans of professionals, but the touseled-haired amateurs, thelr arms around girl companions, galvan- ized into motion by the blare of third- rate bands and adding to the formal skeleton of scheduled pleasures the meat and substance of vulgar, but in- offensive, fun. All Innocent Fun, Strange as It may seem, the frivoll- ties at carnival time on the Riviera are as innocuous as “Needles Eye” and “Post Office” at a donation party in the little white church. For a vapid dummy, Old King Car. nival is a merry old soul. But it is the free guests and spontaneous lollity that furnish a spectacle worth seelng and an experience that makes boils terous revelers of stald visitora However unconventional It may be, he Riviera has its hidebound, brass facked, three-ply conventions. At bac- carat, win or lose, one must look bored. “What does it matter?” Is the expression to wear while sums for which men have murdered or mar ried, stolen or slaved, are tossed neg. ligently back and forth, King Carnival knows no such re striction. “Do as you please” is his motto. In the proclamation which he issues to his subjects, Including the police force, there is no mention of the fact that “liberty does not mean license,” or that “true freedom Is freedom to do right” Yet there are conventions, even amid confett! showers. The masker must disguise voles as well as face, and preferably assume the costume of the opposite sex. This leads to some coarseness. But when some uninitiated town lad discovers his Junoesque curves slipping, hls safety-pin, safety. first efforts are so sincere that one forgives embarrassment, of which he so evidently has the major portion, The home town of Massena, Garl baldl. and Catarina Segurana Is a hulking place, a combination of ugll sess and beauty, of industry and idle unsettiod Ness, an city whose tlong Independent of the tourist horde, vumbering a quarter million visitors a year, just as the Palllon flows unno- ticed under the Casino, the Place Mes. sens, and the perennially beautiful gardens, Why It Is Best in Nice, Its very size Is what gives the Nice festival precedence over the carnivals of Cannes, Mentone and Grasse. nival here has a popularity vivacity of its own, dance to his piping, flutter about his bright lights in gay masquerade, and Valley or Kalamazoo. “Foreigners” come and go. India, burst into polychrome brilliance above dark waters pups from a wide area. sues Its wonted way old town, in the Industrial of St. Roch and Riquier, or in business centers. Yet Nice pur- districts the But let King Carnival issue his revo. lutionary manifesto, doff his tricorne, and shoulder his Gargantuan way infant, rushes to the show. velers keep thelr heads Wine flows freely, but drunkenness 18 not com- mon. followers are strangely absent. serious exception can be taken. Confetti and Flowers. Carnival and paper confettl, a happy combination. Carnival and Notre Dame or the walls of Carcas- sonne, Those who know and dress in cloaks with a raffled hood to protect the ears; but the splendid white horse ridden by the marshal, in his red hunting jacket, has to stand the pelting without benefit of armor. Plaster confetti] 1s the size friable enough to become chalky dust beneath one's feet, In a flower battle, Nice puts the ac- cent on the battle instead of on the flowers. It makes the concession of forbidding the throwing of bouquets tied with baling wire, and of selling nosegays rescued from the mussy street, but the promenade is as crowd ed and disordered as for a Corso Carnavalesque, A minimum decoration, consisting of sickly bouquets tied to the lanterns of an ordinary carriage, will enable its driver to rent It to those who don't know any better, and to occupy a place in the parade. Bowers of beauty are sandwiched In between rheumatic hacks, which, in obeying the letter oi the law, have exhausted all spirit whatsoever, These obstructions are filled with deluded folk, who spend the morning picturing themselves In the heart of a flower battle and the rest of their lives wondering why they ever tried to compete in a beauty parade with those whose chariots are completely hidden by choice blooms, For flowlr battles, one does Setter to go to Cannes, Cagnes, Grasse, Men. tone or Benullen, where the event is a sort of family affair, where the am- munition Is sweeter, the carriages and cars more uniformly dainty, and the spirit more cognizant of the fact that a flower should be a graceful tribute rather than a missile. TALES... of the TRIBES By EDITHA L. WATSON The Cheyenne A band of Cheyenne in full panoply must have been one of the finest sights of the plains, We can im- agine them ns they rode along: War bonnetted, armed with their deadly bows and arrows, lances, and stone-headed clubs, carrying eircular buffalo-hide shields, and above all, every part of their outfit, even to hoods on the Cheyenne, ponies’ heads, rich- iv ornamented with beading, quillwork, and feathers. A Cheyenne village, too, must conleal ti have of ip for the 8 were painted with scenes of battle or ree kept nearby for fear of raid- a perfectly horses, no doubt Although typical of the plains tribes, the Cheyenne were not always horse Indians, hunters of buffalo. that they once lived in Minnesota and on the Missouri river, where they however, be gan to press the Sioux, their neigh bors, westward, and the Sioux crowd. ed the Cheyennes until finally they found themselves upon the plains, and their lives to the changed The travois aided them In travels: a network lashed on poles, which were tied to a pony and dragged behind on the ground. must be crossed, the of buffalo hide stretched race, who found necessity die were a versatile means of doing what Now, however, a change came upon them. Drifting west and south, they came to a fork of the Platte river, In where they settled Perhaps, had they stayed there, they culture and pottery making, to modify the nomadic, hunting life they had In 1832 however, established on the Arkansas river In Colorado, and a large part tribe decided to move into the vicinity definitely by treaty, and became the Northern and prond, contentious, and The Ki- owa, who resented the encroachment of the Southern Cheyenne, fornished this branch with foes for eight years, when peace was finally declared. In Mexico, they as to make a rald into this ended disastrously, as far but among their warriors. The Chiving ton massacre and a battle with Custer further weakened them, and the outhreak of the southern tribes In 1874.5, they surrendered, and homa, In 1901-2 the lands of the does not agree with them. The Northern Cheyenne have had joined with the Sioux ull, and were active in Custer's last hattle the whites under Mack. enzie caused them to surrender. They were sent to the reservation in Okla- homa, but they were unhappy there. The “fighting Cheyennes” were not fond of peace, although bound to ob serve it, and, too, that part of the country was strange to them. They made several attempts to escape; In the winter of 1878 a band composed of some 98 men and 146 women and children made a desperate effort to get away. They were pursued almost to the Dakota border, and in the fight lost about 40, mostly warriors, includ. ing one of their leaders. The captured runaways were taken to Fort Robin. son, Nebraska, and here they made a second attempt, In which 32 more of thelr people were killed, Little Wolf, one of the leaders of this enterprise, managed to get away and about 60 of the Northern Cheyenne followed him, They were never content with their Oklahoma homes, Let the Southern part of the tribe accept them-—the Northern division would still fight, After much unrest they were finally moved to their present home in Mon. tana, where they are slowly increas ing and seem to be content. (B. 193), Western Newspaper Union ) While many people believe that the Indians originated In Asia, there are others who claim them to be the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, or descendants of a Welsh colony, or from Greece, China, Japan, Phoenicia, Ireland, Poly. nesin, or Australasia, ‘Thelr real origin 1s still In doubt. To be a Healthy Woman watch your Bowels! What should women do to keep thelr bowels moving freely? A doc. tor should know the answer. 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